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CONSIDERABLE agitation has been created in Newcastle and its surrounding collieries by all the coal companies (with the exception of Lambton) having yesterday reduced the price of our great staple from 10s. to 8s. 9d. per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH regard to the gold prospects of Shellharbour, the Illawarra Express of 'Tuesday observes:—The parties engaged in seeking for gold on the beach at Shellharbour are persevering in that pursuit with vigour and sanguine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Murrumburrah Correspondent of the Yass Courier writes on the 29th ultimo:—The most noticeable event I have to record is the starting of the crushing mill at Demondrillo Creek. The machine was set to work on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Grafton Observer reports, that, as additional information from the locale of the late reef discovery reached Grafton on Saturday last and the early part of the present week, great excitement was created, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH reference to the recently reported discovery of alluvial diggings on the Little River, one of the tributaries of the Clarence, the Grafton Observer says:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CONSIDERABLE agitation has been created in Newcastle and its surrounding collieries by all the coal companies (with the exception of Lambton) having yesterday reduced the price of our great staple from 10s. to 8s. 9d. per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →YESTERDAY, the price of coal at this port was again reduced, 8s. 6d. being now the price per ton. The history of this disastrous contest between the various collieries of this district appears to be, so far as we can learn, as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A very important decision was given by the Bench of Magistrates at Tenterfield on the 11th ultimo, which I have not yet seen reported. It is as follows:— known as a water right on the Table Land, some twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In the Herald of Thursday last is a letter from Mr. Matthew Young, the representative in this colony of the Lambton Colliery, referring to the recent reduction of the price of coal at Newcastle. In this letter Mr. Young states…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE CANGI GOLD-FIELD.—The reports from the Cangi diggings (says the Clarence Examiner), during the past, have been both vague and unsatisfactory, and so far as report goes, there appears to be no doubt that gold exists in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KIANDRA.—Writing on the 28th ultime, the correspondent of the Gundagai Times says:—"Water is naturally very scarce; and although we have a little still in Kiandra there is none at the Nine Mile. The ground sluicers have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The monthly escort returns, continue to exhibit a very satisfactory increase, the yield of the month of August being 23,863 ounces. Of the total quantity, 15,113 ounces were contributed from the Western,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Liberator, for London, 5976 oz. gold. City of Adelaide, for Melbourne 15,000 sovereigns. Bombay, for Galle, 37,752 sovereigns, 2014 oz. gold. Victory, for Mauritius, 15,000 sovereigns…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Having been appealed to by Messrs. Laidley, Ireland, and Co., to say publicly whether the assertions made in their letter to the Herald of the 5th instant are in accordance with fact, we beg to state…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—In your issue of the 3rd instant you gave insertion to a communication from Mr. M. Young, of the firm of Morehead and Young, the Colonial representatives of the "Scottish Australian or Lambton Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MURRUMBURRAH.—The correspondent of the Yass Courier writes:—We have had a crushing of 40 tons of quartz at Demondrille, from No. 1, Louisa Reef. The result was only 6[?] dwts, to the ton. I will not conceal the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—If you could find room in your paper to insert a few lines upon the state of the Thames gold-fields, it might do our New South Wales and Victorian diggers a favour, as if might prevent them from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MAJOR'S C[?]EEK.—A correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch writes:—We are still suffering from drought, which is a very great drawback to the old creek, and causes grave apprehensions to the settlers who are unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Grafton Observer of the 29th ultimo contains information, which is not at all encoureging, from the recently discovered alluvial workings at Congi. It says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE REEF AT APPLETREE FLAT. —We (Western Post) have seen some specimens of gold crushed out by hand from this reef, which appears to be very pure, and judging from the amount of gold extracted roughly from about 10 lbs…
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